ATLANTA GA April 20 2018 Atlanta police are reporting that a woman who works as a contract security officer at the downtown Atlanta library, had scissors held to her throat while a man hiding in the building tried to make her perform oral sex on him late Sunday night after the library closed. A surveillance […]
South Africa April 20 18 A group of armed men have been caught on camera robbing a cash-in-transit van in Klerksdorp, North West. The North West Hawks said the heist took place opposite the Standard Bank in the district on Thursday. Hawks regional spokesperson Captain Tlangelani Rikhotso told News24 that two security guards were shot. […]
Tallahassee FL April 20 2018 After the Parkland school shootings, every school district in Florida reassessed its school security and, unsurprisingly enough, found it needed to do more. At the end of the legislative session last month, Gov. Rick Scott touted the $400 million that the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act appropriates […]
Williamsburg VA April 20 2018 Ten people — including eight College of William & Mary students and a professor — were arrested this week on narcotics distribution charges following a months-long investigation, Williamsburg police said. Police said the operation, a joint investigation by Williamsburg authorities and the Tri-Rivers Drug Task Force, seized LSD, cocaine, psilocybin (mushrooms), […]
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. April 20 2018— Sandy Springs Police Chief Ken DeSimone addressed a City Council meeting Tuesday to propose changes to the city’s embattled false alarm ordinance, including reducing fines and shifting automated alarm calls from the 911 center to the city’s non-emergency call center. The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC), along with the […]
KANSAS CITY, Kan. April 20 2018— A KCK school resource officer has been charged Thursday after allegedly having sexual contact with three minors, Wyandotte County prosecutors say. Michael English Sr., 57, has been charged with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties after prosecutors say he engaged in lewd fondling or touching with three children who […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. April 19 2018 Police say a security officer thwarted a would-be bank robber in downtown Birmingham Wednesday morning. According to Birmingham police, a 37-year-old man allegedly tried to rob Synovus First Commercial Bank on Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard. But the bank had an armed security officer who immediately intervened and detained the suspect […]
GALVESTON TX April 19 2018 – A former employee of a security service provider alleges he was not paid at all for three weeks of his employment. Olalekan Oyewo filed a complaint on April 4 in the Galveston County District Court against Arriva Best Security Inc. alleging violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and breach […]
Los Angeles CA April 19 2018 A lawsuit filed on behalf of a 29-month-old girl whose father was killed while working as a security guard at a South Los Angeles marijuana dispensary last summer alleges he was untrained for the job and not given any weapons or a protective vest. Siosifa Maama, a 21-year-old Tongan native, […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. April 19 2018 – More than 100 people will soon be hired by Duval County Public Schools to become “school safety assistants,” armed positions aimed at protecting schools, if a plan is eventually approved by the school board. The plan was one of five introduced at a Duval County School Board workshop Tuesday morning. […]